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The extent to which overqualified employees may engage in counterproductive work behaviors (CWB) remains unclear. This study investigated the relationships between objectively measured overqualification (OOQ), perceived overqualification (POQ), and combinations of four lower‐order facets of CWB. The results found OOQ to be associated with POQ, which was in‐turn associated with minor‐CWB and organizational‐oriented CWB, but not with serious‐ or interpersonal‐oriented CWB. This is one of the first studies to examine CWB as a consequence of OOQ, and one of the few studies to differentially predict serious versus minor CWBs.

Integrity tests have been well researched in recent decades and have consistently been found to be effective predictors of counterproductive behaviors in a variety of occupational settings. In practice, however, the unique nature of integrity tests and their constructs have made their integration into organizations’ recruitment processes somewhat challenging. In light of this situation, the present article outlines a number of practical guidelines that organizations can follow to help ensure successful integrity testing procedures. These guidelines are based on best practice standards for preemployment testing and describe the fundamental need for carefully planned and well-communicated implementation stages, which may include an initial audit of the organization’s counterproductive behaviors, setting realistic and measurable objectives for the test’s use, choosing the appropriate test, correctly positioning the test within the recruitment process, training the organization’s staff and piloting the test, making accurate hiring decisions and providing appropriate candidate feedback, and finally monitoring the test’s performance and employees’ behaviors over time.

Medical Writings1 November 1998Men with No Spleens and Carved-Out Feet: What Is the Meaning in the Words?Matityahu Oren, MD, Joseph Herman, MD, and Jacob Elbaum, PhDMatityahu Oren, MDSafed, IsraelNetivot, IsraelJerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this author, Joseph Herman, MDSafed, IsraelNetivot, IsraelJerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this author, and Jacob Elbaum, PhDSafed, IsraelNetivot, IsraelJerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-129-9-199811010-00044 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail The assignment of priority in writings on the history of medicine is fraught with hazard. Not only may priority be overturned at any time by newly discovered material from medical libraries, but it is under constant threat from outside sources that usually have little to do with the physician's work. For example, Hua T'o (115-205), the great Chinese surgeon, is thought to have performed the first successful splenectomy [1]. This assumption is challenged, however, by a third-century Jewish source [2], Rav Yehuda (219-299), who comments on a passage from the Bible. Rav Yehuda makes the astonishing claim that in King ...

The World Health Organization convened in Geneva from 5 to 10 December 1966 a Scientific Group on Standardization of Procedures for the Study of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase(1) (EC 1.1.1.49; D-glucose-6-phosphate: NAPD oxidoreductase; G6PD). Variants of this enzyme have attracted international attention both as causes of various haemolytic disorders and as useful genetic markers in man. In the course of the meeting the variants of this enzyme thus far described were extensively reviewed. There was unanimous agreement that a consistent system of nomenclature would be desirable, and that as G6PD variants were only one example of similar polymorphisms in man, a nomenclature should be devised which might conceivably be applied to other enzymes.The Group included the following recommendations on nomenclature in its report, which will be published in full in World Health Organization: Technical Report Series, 1967, 366.